Emily Weber

Instructor (Ballet/Modern/Progressing Ballet Technique)

Education: MS in Kinesiology from Sam Houston State University, BA in Dance from the University of Iowa

Year Joined: 2012

Classes Taught: Intermediate Ballet, Pro 2 Modern, Pro 2 Ballet, Pro 4 Ballet, Pro 4 Pointe, Progressing Ballet Technique

Biography

Emily Weber began her training with the Victoria Ballet Theatre in Victoria, Texas as well as the Ballet Austin Senior Summer Intensive, and the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Summer
Intensive. During her time with Victoria Ballet Theatre she performed many ballets including:
The Nutcracker, Peter and the Wolf, La Bayadere, The Red Shoes, Swan Lake, Don Quixote
Suite, and Graduation Ball, as well as other various works of choreography. Along with these
performances she also had the opportunity to travel to Austria with Victoria Ballet Theatre to
perform in the Tanzsommer Dance Festival tour.

Emily attended the University of Iowa where she received a BA in Dance in 2010. During her
time at the University of Iowa, Emily worked on several independent projects with
undergraduate and graduate students, performing in several UI dance concerts as well as creating her own choreographic works. She also collaborated with faculty members on their
choreography projects and was an active member of the UI Afro-Cuban Drum and Dance
Ensemble. In 2009 she received her certification as a yoga trainer.

In 2012 she joined the staff at Iowa Ballet Academy where she has taught a variety of classes.
Emily has participated in Iowa Dance Theatre’s Cinderella, Nutcracker, Dracula, and Seven
Deadly Sins and has been a rehearsal director since 2017. She participated in Yaro Dance
Company dancing a variety of roles and is now the Yaro Dance Company rehearsal mistress. In
2018 Emily became a licensed Progressing Ballet Technique instructor. Additionally, she has
choreographed for and danced in the Iowa Choreography Festival. In 2020 Emily received an
MS in Kinesiology from Sam Houston State University successfully completing and publishing a thesis with a focus on dance learning. Currently, she is a doctoral student at the University of
North Carolina Greensboro in the Department of Kinesiology with a dissertation topic in dance
education.